For fun I will post some female Mega Man character designs since it's my favorite video game series. Overall they are nothing terribly offensive but they do leave a lot to be desired. The main flaw is that they are mostly relegated to a support / tech role and rarely get in on the action. Most of them at least get to be very smart characters, but there are also some helpless damsel in distress types.
Mega Man Legends: Roll and Tron
These two are definitely highlights of women Megaman characters. They are both super smart (especially compared to the male characters who are mostly dopes), and although Roll only serves as the support and tech role, Tron does the same plus actually piloting her mechs in battle.
They both get to have very well developed personalities (two of the best characters in all MM games) and some nice moments of character development as well - which says something given that this is a Megaman game. Tron does have a crush on Megaman, but I don't think it's anything unreasonable. It's not over the top (I mean it's cartoonish and comedic, but they don't spend tons of time on it), and Tron routinely stands up for herself and places her own aspirations far above any interest in Megaman.
I am not really sure what's going on with Tron's metal crotch plate, but that aside (kind of a big aside I know) both of them also have very good designs.
Mega Man Battle Network: Mai and Roll
There's a lot of Battle Network media I haven't seen, but in my experience with 4 different BN games, Mai and Roll are realistically portrayed as "one of the gang", i.e. they are not relegated to the sidelines and they get into the action just as much as any other character (aside from Megaman himself). They are a bit bland (I don't recall Roll having any personality at all really) but they are at least treated fairly in terms of how their strength and intelligence is portrayed. Roll does use a lot of healing and "heart" motif abilities which is quite cliche from the one female hero in a group of 4. It would have been nice if a male character were the healing type and Roll got to do something else. Nothing wrong with Roll being a "girly" character, but since she's the only girl in the main cast of Navi (the digital characters who get all the action) it' s a bit disappointing. I honestly forget if they ever play the "damsel in distress" part but frankly it wouldn't surprise me. One could argue Mai's skirt is too flirty since she's in middle school, but I'm not really sure what middle schoolers normally wear.
Mega Man ZX: Aile
In Mega Man ZX you get to choose between a male and female character. They are brother and sister, and both exist in the story together (but they are more or less exactly the same with a few design differences). Personality-wise there is not much to say about them, but it is nice they are treated as true equals (although the male version is first on the character select screen). Design-wise I think she looks good, but I'm not really a fan of her shorts. Not that they're problematic, but they don't look as good as the pants and I don't see why she couldn't be wearing the same pants. Even some capri type leggings would be better.
Mega Man X:
Mega Man X is the worst of the bunch, as most of its female characters frankly are just not good.
Iris: Helpless damsel in distress. No personality other than "help me i'm just a girl". Some of that is due to the awful voice acting, maybe with a different actor she wouldn't come of that way so strongly. Her design is not too bad, although the robot dress makes no sense to me at all. I have never seen a robot dress work well (open challenge!).
Nana: Just another support type female character. No personality to speak of other than being shy. I do actually like her design though! I get that some may not like the jumpsuit, and there's no real reason for a robots to have a bosom, but I actually think she looks sporty in a nice and appropriate way.
Alia: Speaking of bosoms. Alia is yet another woman who is relegated to the generic support role. But she has... boobs that looks pretty human? What? No other character has fleshy looking bits like that. It's just her boobs. Wtf?
And speaking of weirdly flesh-like boobs, from Mega Man X8 we have Layer.
No comment needed.
Lastly from Mega Man X Command Mission there are two playable female characters.
Cinnamon: Another generic healer type. About as bland as you can get. Not sure why her thighs are flesh colored, other than that (and anoth pointless robot dress) her design is alright, just a bit too bland. As you can already guess, she has a "shy and cute" personality. Yawn.
Marino: Marino has robot boobs and a skin-tight leotard, but you know what? I actually quite like her design. Unlike the designs above, Marino actually displays some agency and power through her design. Despite being sexualized, she still looks like a badass, and in the context of most of the designs I posted before hers, that's actually pretty refreshing.
I'll end there since I've been going for a while, and that basically covers all the female character archtypes in Mega Man games. It should of course be pointed out that women robots are SEVERELY outnumbered by male robots. In the Classic series there are only 2 female robot masters out of about 80. It's a little fuzzy since you can argue that many of the robots are not necessarily "men"... but most of them I would say are signaling male. So even though I can give credit to some of the designs in the series (which a few being awesome standouts), there are still some major problems with it overall.
